Background
Cannon, Paul Roberts was born on August 25, 1892 in Lexington, Illinois, United States. Son of William H. and Clara Belle (Roberts) Cannon.
Cannon, Paul Roberts was born on August 25, 1892 in Lexington, Illinois, United States. Son of William H. and Clara Belle (Roberts) Cannon.
Student, Eureka (Illinois) College, 1913. AB, James Millikin University, 1915. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1921.
Doctor of Medicine, Rush Medical College, 1925.
Began as bacteriologist,, 1915;
instructor bacteriology, University of Chicago, 1919-1920;
assistant professor pathology, University of Chicago, 1925-1932;
professor, University of Chicago, 1932-1957;
department chairman, University of Chicago, 1940-1957;
professor pathology, U. Mississippi, 1920-1923. Member commission on pathology, food protection committee National Research Council (member food nutritionbd. 1947-1951); member National Influenza Commission.
Member American Board of Pathology,1937-1943.
Served as 1st lieutenant Sanitary corpus, United States army, World War I. Recipient Groedel medal American College Cardiology, 1958. Member American Society Pathologists and Bacteriologists (president 1942-1943), Association Immunologists (ex-president), Chicago Pathol. Society (ex-president), National Academy of Sciences, American Society Experimental Pathology (president 1946-1947.
Burdick award 1948), Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Married Joyce Tobin, December 24, 1917. 1 child, Paul R.
